Cant restore my ipod shuffle

Hi all,
I have a first generation shuffle. Completely random thing happened as it just froze one morning. I hadn't updated any software on either the shuffle or my PC at work. The battery was charged so i knew that wasnt it. Basically the LED light on the from flickered from orange to green and back again.
Next step was trying to restore it, but when i tried that i got the following message:
"ipod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1418)."
Anyone else had similar problems??
Cheers!

ok i basically answered my own question! i went to the following page and hey presto everything is back to normal.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305204
hope this helps.

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